[1] They are listed below by their Hanyu Pinyin spelling, which reflects the Standard Mandarin pronunciation: Bong is the Revised Romanization spelling of a Korean surname originally written using either of two hanja.
[3] These surnames are also spelled Pong in most other systems of romanising Korean (e.g. McCune–Reischauer, Yale, and North Korea's system), and are both used as Chinese surnames as well, pronounced Fèng in Mandarin.
[1][4] In the Netherlands, there were 53 people with the surname Bong as of 2007, primarily of Chinese Indonesian origin.
[5] The 2000 South Korean census found 11,819 people in 3,629 households with the surnames spelled Bong in the Revised Romanization of Korean, divided among 11,492 people in 3,528 households for Batdeul Bong, and 327 people in 101 households for Bongsae Bong.
[3] Statistics compiled by Patrick Hanks on the basis of the 2011 United Kingdom census and the Census of Ireland 2011 found 53 people with the surname Bong on the island of Great Britain and one on the island of Ireland.